A young blue star burns bright among the haze of the cloud from which it came forth. What seems to be a gas planet is visible in the foreground and another planet is seen through the haze, its details obscured.

This digital painting is of a full eclipse of the sun by the earth. In the center of the picture is "OSS" meaning Open Source Software (I write some opensource programs). I hope that this finds it's way onto may a desktop background. In the optical haze you can see some stars around the earth making a sort of a halo starscape. Tell me what you think.

This is a digital painting of the view just past Mars of when the sun goes nova. Tell me what you think about it :). It was made using the Gnu Image Manipulation Program (The GIMP) and public domain NASA photographs of Mars.